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Oncoming drivers? I’m getting blasted by “cars” behind me. Fucking trucks or even lifted trucks with their headlights at my eye level. And it seems like lights are getting brighter as well, or people drive with their high beams on. My rearview mirror is auto dimming, which helps a lot. But since I drive the speed limit these trucks are swerving back and forth behind me, blinding me via the side mirrors.

Man we really really need restrictions on size and weight of cars. It’s getting ridiculous out there.

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nonfuinoncuro@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
people actually drive with their high beams on 24/7 even on lighted roads and traffic. I was in an Uber recently and the driver did this. I already drive a relatively high riding SUV and I get blinded by those lifted trucks regularly. people are insane and only care about themselves

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- sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Yep, I’m only 35 and remember when almost all drivers generally only used hibeams in situations of serious low visibility due to fog or snow or rain, or a totally unlit road at night out in the middle of no where, and where it was common courtesy to turn your hibeams off when someone is coming toward you on the other side of the road, turn em back on when they pass.
  
  Seems like basically no one does this at all any more, barring some longhaul truckers.
  
  Its just super brights all the time.
  
  If you have an astigmatism, just get fucked, crash and die I guess.
  
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  - piccolo@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    You dont use hibeams in fog or heavy snow… you’ll just blind yourself.
    
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XeroxCool@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
A driving factor is the US requirement to place low beams above (and outward) of high beams. Couple that with traditional design goals of “my eyes are up here” faces (see: not the juke), you get normal low beams blinding every car with lows higher than mirrors. Then couple that with the factory aiming the lights to the max heigh with an empty tank and no cargo and sending that off to the gen pop, which is clueless about the ability to aim them.

Ironically, the low/hi arrangement requirement went against the original RX350 headlight design. It caused the creation of one of the greatest dual-beam xenon projectors of all time because the original high beam location was noncompliant. It got used as a big DRL I believe. Those “rx350” projectors were very popular in the retrofit headlight community, a hobbyist group dedicated to improving lighting without blinding others

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Revan343@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

Man we really really need restrictions on size and weight of cars. It’s getting ridiculous out there.

There will always be actual situations where giant trucks are necessary, but they’re like 0.1% of the actual giant trucks on the road.

I say require a commercial license over a certain vehicle weight (maybe with a carved out exception that it’s the vehicle weight not including the lithium battery, cor EVs’ sake). Commercial licenses are harder to get, and much easier to lose.

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- atrielienz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  I don’t think they need a commercial license. Just an extra endorsement (like with motorcycles) would be enough. You want to drive a vehicle that tows? That should be an extra endorsement regardless of whether or not you’re going to tow/haul anything. We could even subsidize it for farm vehicles and construction vehicles etc.
  
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